The Prosecutor General's Office announces the appointment of the Prosecutor General in the official publication of November 3rd

In the November 3, 2026 issue of Latvijas Vēstnesis, No. 212, published with the official reference OP 2026/212, a notice from the Prosecutor General’s Office titled “On the Appointment of the Prosecutor General” was published as the first item in the institutions section. The notice was issued by the Prosecutor General’s Office itself, and its source in the table of contents is listed as “Prosecutor General’s Office information.” Publication in the official gazette is the legal basis by which the personnel decision is announced to the public.

The entry is placed in the “INSTITUTIONS” part of the publication—the section where the official gazette publishes notices from state institutions, including law enforcement and prosecutorial bodies. In this issue, it is the first item in the institutions section, appearing before the publications of binding regulations and decisions of local governments.

Where the documents can be found

• Latvijas Vēstnesis, November 3, 2026, No. 212, official reference OP 2026/212.
• Location of the notice: “INSTITUTIONS” section, item 1.
• Title of the notice: “On the Appointment of the Prosecutor General”.
• Source: Prosecutor General’s Office information.
• Document available in the publication archive: vestnesis-2026-11-03-212.full.md.

Series of appointment notices in autumn issues

Notices regarding the appointment of Prosecutors General have appeared repeatedly in the official gazette this autumn, indicating a planned staffing of the prosecution leadership:

• September 17, 2026, No. 179 (OP 2026/179), institutions section item 2 – “On the Appointment of the Prosecutor General”, source Prosecutor General’s Office information.
• October 1, 2026, No. 189 (OP 2026/189), institutions section item 48 – “On the Appointment of the Deputy Prosecutor General”, source Prosecutor General’s Office information.
• October 13, 2026, No. 197 (OP 2026/197), institutions section item 4 – “On the Appointment of the Prosecutor General”, source Prosecutor General’s Office information.
• November 3, 2026, No. 212 (OP 2026/212), institutions section item 1 – “On the Appointment of the Prosecutor General”.

All four notices were published in the exact same section of the official gazette—“INSTITUTIONS”—and in all cases, the source is listed as Prosecutor General’s Office information. In total, the word “prosecution” (prokuratūra) appears 34 times in the vestnesis corpus, while direct references to the Prosecutor General’s Office appear in five publications.

What the table of contents reveals and what it does not

The publication’s table of contents, which constitutes the accessible text of these publications, lists only the notice headline, the issuing institution, and the official reference. The person’s name, the date of appointment, the term of office, and the structural unit are not mentioned in the index—this data is within the text of the notice itself, published in the gazette. Therefore, when referring to this decision, it is correct to specify the issue number and reference (OP 2026/212) rather than making assumptions about the identity of the official.

Why this is important

The Prosecutor General is a management-level official of the prosecutor’s office, and the publication of such a decision in an official publication is significant in two ways. First, it ensures legal certainty – the personnel decision becomes publicly verifiable and citable with a specific official reference. Second, the composition of the prosecutor’s office management directly affects the progress of supervisory work and the progress of individual cases, therefore such news is essential for both lawyers and the wider public.

Readers following personnel decisions of the prosecutor’s office should note that Latvijas Vēstnesis is the primary source: issue No. 212 with reference OP 2026/212 is the official document upon which any reference to the appointment of the Prosecutor General announced on November 3, 2026, must be based.

Official source: Latvijas Vēstnesis (the official publication of the Republic of Latvia), November 3, 2026, No. 212, official reference OP 2026/212, section “INSTITUTIONS”, point 1 – Prosecutor General’s Office information “On the appointment of the Prosecutor General”. Additional publications: OP 2026/179 (17.09.2026, point 2), OP 2026/189 (01.10.2026, point 48), OP 2026/197 (13.10.2026, point 4).